Job Opportunity at Construction Materials Consultants, Inc.

Are you a geology graduate with a passion for optical mineralogy and petrography? CMC, Inc. (www.cmc-concrete.com) is expanding its team and looking for a skilled concrete petrographer to join us in our mission. As a concrete petrographer at CMC, Inc., you will play a crucial role in our laboratories, engaging in a diverse range of tasks from sample preparation to utilizing optical and electron microscopy techniques. Your expertise in wet chemical analyses and other analytical methods will be essential in ensuring the timely completion of our projects. While industry experience in construction materials and forensic investigation is a bonus, we provide comprehensive in-house training on the chemistry and microstructure of cements and hydration products. Your knowledge of mineralogy and petrology will be invaluable in this role. You will not only be able to work in one of the leading firms in concrete petrography with diverse analytical facilities but will have amazing opportunities for seamless migrations from optical microscopy to SEM-EDS, XRD, XRF, FTIR/Raman, chemical, TGA and many other methods of forensic investigations – from materials characterizations to failure investigations. Of course, extensive training will be provided at each step from theory to practice, and techniques of sample preparation. As a cherry in the pie, you will be able to live in a two-story, 3 bedroom, single-family, fully furnished house directly adjacent to the laboratories at free of any rent, transportation, or utilities. The historic downtown with many architectural heritages from the mid-18th century will be at the stone-throwing distance from the house/labs. If you are ready to take on this exciting opportunity and grow with us, please send your resume to info@cmc-concrete.com. Join us at CMC, Inc. and be part of our dynamic team dedicated to excellence in petrographic examinations and construction material analyses.

SCP Meeting at ASTM December Committee Week in Atlanta

We will be scheduling the next meeting for 6 PM, immediately following the C09.65 task group meeting on C856. Specific details to follow regarding room location (just need to confirm room). If anyone has something they would like to present, we would be open to presentations. We should also tackle some logistics regarding the SCP by laws as well as implementing a rubric for accepting applicants. It would also be good to go through the list of petrographers to see who is still active and who is not. We have 139 members and I don't think all of these individuals are active. I would love to create an "In Memoriam" designation to honor those members who have served our industry and are no longer with us. If anyone has a record of prior officers...that would also be nice to create a history of those individuals who have served as officers. I'll do my best to recover what I can from what we have. But I may need some help creating that list. More to come in the next month. -Jamison

SCP Meeting at ASTM Toronto, Monday June 23 at 6pm Eastern

Please join us for an SCP meeting on Monday evening at 6 pm immediately following the ASTM C09.65 Task Group meeting, in the same room. Congratulations to the new officers, who have now officially been elected! Your new President, Jamison, will be leading the meeting. Come hang out with all of the petrographers attending ASTM week and stick around for some presentations from Karl Peterson’s students from University of Toronto!

SCP Meeting as ASTM Philadelphia, Monday June 10, 2024

Hi SCP! A very late announcement - for those of you who are in Philadelphia, please join us in person for our biannual meeting of the Society of Concrete Petrographers. We will meet on Monday evening (tonight!) at 6 pm after that ASTM C09.65 Task Group meeting in the same room (Room 305). This will be a very casual meeting, so feel free to bring up any interesting projects or issues you have been working on for group discussion. I will briefly go over some administrative tasks I would like us to complete as a group, we will talk about the upcoming election of new officers, and then anyone interested can head out for dinner! Looking forward to seeing everyone tonight! Daniela

SCP Meeting at ASTM Washington DC - Dec 4 at 6 pm

Hi SCP! Please join us in person for our biannual meeting of the Society of Concrete Petrographers that will take place in conjunction with the ASTM committee meetings in DC. We will meet on Monday evening at 6 pm after that ASTM C09.65 Task Group meeting in the same room (DuPont). We will briefly go over some administrative tasks, and then will open up the meeting for discussions about remote training of petrographers and for anyone to bring up interesting projects or images. If you have anything you would like to bring up, bring to the meeting and images or ideas that you would like to discuss with others in a casual environment. Looking forward to seeing everyone next week! Daniela